Cities

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Beijing is China’s second largest city after Shanghai with more than 17 million people. Three styles of architecture predominate in urban Beijing: the traditional architecture of imperial China (the Forbidden City, the Imperial Ancestral Temple and the Temple of Heaven), the “Sino-Sov” style, built between the 1950s and the 1970s, […]

Chios is a Greek island, situated in the Aegean Sea, seven kilometres off the Asia Minor coast. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages. Directly in the centre of the island, between the villages of Avgonyma to the west […]

Denizli is a growing industrial city in the Southwestern part of the Turkey. Denizli attracts many visitors to the nearby mineral-coated hillside hot spring of Pamukkale, with red color thermal water spa hotels Karahayit and the ancient ruined city of Hierapolis. Denizli Çardak Airport is about 45 minutes drive from […]

Juliaca is a city in the Puno Region, Peru. Juliaca is on the Altiplano, 3825 meters above sea level, close to Lake Titicaca. Inca Manco Cápac International Airport, is situated in the city of Juliaca, thirty minutes from the city of Puno at Titicaca Lake.

The city of Lisbon is rich in architecture: Romanesque, Gothic, Manueline, Baroque, Traditional Portuguese, Modern and Post-Modern constructions can be found all over the city… Lisbon Portela Airport, also known as Lisbon Airport , is located 7 km (4.3 mi) north of Castle of São Jorge in the city of […]

Puerto Iguazú is a frontier city in the province of Misiones, Argentina. The world-renowned Iguazu Falls are only 18 kilometres (11 mi) away from the city, and as a result the city has developed its infrastructure around tourism. The city is served by its own international airport, Cataratas del Iguazú […]

Bangor is a city in Maine, United States. Bangor has a fascinating, mostly 19th-century cityscape, and sections of the city are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Bangor State fair, held starting the last Friday of each July, for more than 150 years, is one of the […]

Liberia is a city in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Tourists may pass through Liberia en route to such beaches as Playa del Coco, Playa Hermosa, or the Papagayo peninsula. The Daniel Oduber International Airport is located 4 miles west from the city.

Varadero is a resort town in the province of Matanzas in Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean. The peninsula is only 1.2 km wide at its widest point and is separated from the island of Cuba by the Kawama Channel. Varadero is foremost a tourist […]

Victoria Falls is a town in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It became the principal tourism centre for the Falls, experiencing economic booms from the 1930s to the 1960s and in the 1980s and early 1990s; it experienced downturns in the 1970s and again since the late 1990s. Victoria […]

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, on the western shore of the Paraná River. The Port of Rosario, is an inland port and a major goods-shipping centre of Argentina. The city is a major railroad terminal and the shipping center for northeastern Argentina. The […]

Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States and a world center of business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, technology, and education. As the home base of Hollywood, it is known as the “Entertainment Capital of the World”. The main Los Angeles airport is Los […]